Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky will have to perform a legal incantation Thursday if he follows a probation recommendation and sentences Brock Turner to county jail rather than state prison...

Property owners of a controversial mixed-use project at 429 University Ave. have proposed cutting residential space from its fourth floor to address city officials' concerns the 'monolithic' building is out of context with its surroundings...

The City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to continue talks exclusively with Pets in Need despite a showing of Animal Services employees, volunteers and supporters who say the nonprofit is not equipped to provide the services Palo Alto residents wan..

A year into a controversial new program that prioritizes street parking for downtown residents, council members are asking that the number of permits allocated for people who work downtown be reduced again.The City Council learned at a meeting on Tue..

The U.S. government on Wednesday removed nine of the world's 14 humpback whale populations from federal endangered species lists, but the whales that migrate through Central California are not among them...

Center for Biological Diversity wants state to study the idea of bringing grizzlies back to wilderness areas, but critics suggest it would be impractical and unsafe to reintroduce the 800-pound predator to the most populated state in the nation...

Classes resumed at James Logan High School on Tuesday morning, two days after a car crash killed two students and injured another, a tragedy that the team's football coach said 'stretches farther than our school.'..

Attendees said dozens of Hiero Day attendees climbed walls to watch artists perform from atop dangerous rooftops. Near the end of the daylong festival, a 22-year-old woman fell through a second-story warehouse skylight...

Students, faculty and staff at the 130 ITT Technical Institute campuses across the United States, including two in the Bay Area and another dozen in California, got the distressing news on Tuesday that the embattled company was shutting down its netw..

A small mini-mart catering to truck drivers and longshoremen at the Port of Oakland says it is being forced to close and its customers will have no choice but to go into West Oakland to search for food and supplies...